Definition of Sentient City by Mark Shepard

“dataclouds of 21st century urban space” that shape the experience of those in it.

Book

• Introduction: Mark Shepard
• Toward the sentient city: Mark Shepard
• Systems, Objectified: Hadas Steiner

• Case Studies
• New Interaction Partners for environmental governance:
• Amphibious Architecture:
• David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang (The Living) and Natalie Jaremijenko (xDesign Environmental Health Clinic)
• Structuring Participation for an Energy Commons
• Natural Fuse:
• Usman Haque, Nitipak ‘Dot’ Samsen, Ai Hasegawa (Haque Design+Research)
• Urban Digestive Systems
• Trash Track:
• MIT SENSEable City Lab
• An International Failure for the Near Future
• Too Smart City:
• David Jimison and JooYoun Paek
• Situating Knowledge Work in Contemporary Public Spaces
• Breakout!: Escape from the Office:
• Anthony Townsend, Antonina Simeti, Dana Spiegal, Laura Forlano, and Tony Bacigalupo

• Essays
• The Action is the Form: Keller Eastering
• Interaction Anxieties: Omar Kahn
• New Spatial Intelligence, or the Tree allowed to grow freely, but to man’s pattern: Dan Hill
• Boxes Towards Bananas: Dispersal, Intelligence and Animal Structures: Matthew Fuller
• Unsettling Topographic Representation: Saskia Sassen
• The Urban Culture of Sentient Cities: From an Internet of Things to a Public Sphere of Things: Martijn de Waal
• http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/in-a-sentient-city-what-is-public-or-private/16343
• Space, Finance, and New Technologies: Kazys Varnelis
• Your Mobility for Sale: Trebor Scholz
• Comforts, Crisis, and the Rise of DIY Urbanism: Mimi Zeiger
• 8. Matthew Passmore, “Participatory Urbanism: Taking Action by Taking Space”, SPUR Urbanist, Feb 2010.
• 10. Clay Shirky, “Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age”, Penguin Press, New York 2010.
• 13. http://www.weeels.org/faq.html#is-it-safe-to-get-into-a-car-with-a-stranger
• Toward the Sentient City: Expecting the Extensible and Transmissible City: Anne Galloway
• Postscript: Notes on Survival in the Sentient City: Mark Shepard

Exhibition

 

Blog article

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2009/10/toward-the-sentient-city.html